For anyone who grows something — an acre or a thousand
Bring people to your farm.
You have the land, the season, the animals and forty years of knowing what the weather is about to do. What you do not have is a marketing department, a booking system, or a free evening in which to build one. That is the part we do — and we are paid only when somebody actually walks up your drive.
The honest pitch
Growing it well is not the same as being found.
Nearly every grower we sit down with has the same three problems, and not one of them is farming.
The season does your scheduling
Eight good weekends decide the year. The other forty-four cost you the same in water, feed and hours, and bring nobody up the drive.
Findable only if they know your name
You are on a road nobody drives without a reason. Search sends the family of four to whoever bought the ad, not to whoever farms best.
The work does not stop for the inbox
Enquiries land at nine at night, half of them asking whether you are open Sunday, and you answer them with the hands you were irrigating with.
We take all three off your desk. You keep doing the part you are actually good at, which is the part nobody else can do.
How we set you up
Every class needs four things. We help with the ones you are missing.
Knowing how is the part only you have. The rest is somewhere to hold it, an offer people come back for, a way to take the booking, and people to fill it.
1. A space
Use your own place, a beach, a park, or rent one. Farms and studios around the county list rooms, barns, kitchens and gardens in our space directory at livabit.co/spaces, and we introduce you to the host.
2. An offer people stay for
We help you shape what you teach into a class people join by the month, so the same faces come back and build on last week instead of a new crowd starting over every time. Free.
3. The system
Your listing, the booking calendar, card checkout, signed waivers and one message thread per booking, all run on Livabit. Free to use: we earn a commission on what sells.
4. People
We market the whole platform: the San Diego Farm Crawl, our highway sign, ads and our own channels. We will not promise to fill your class on our own, so bring your people too, and we give you the tools to do it.
What you get
Three things you should not have to build
A farm that opens its gate suddenly needs a marketing team, a booking system and a way of being found. Buying all three separately is how agritourism quietly stops being worth it.
Marketing
Done for you, at our expense, and timed to the ground rather than to a content calendar.
- Photography shot more than once — the orchard in blossom and the same rows in fruit
- Listing copy written for you, and rewritten when the crop or the season changes
- Paid and organic marketing at our expense, never billed back to you
- Campaigns timed to your harvest rather than our calendar
- The quiet months given something to sell, not left blank
- Post-visit follow-up, so a good day turns into a review you can use anywhere
The technical side
The software an operation your size would never sensibly buy on its own. It comes with the partnership.
- A real booking calendar — close a date the moment the field is too wet
- Card checkout, or keep taking payment yourself; both are supported
- Liability waivers signed before arrival, not on a clipboard at the gate
- Licence, insurance and permit expiry tracked, and you are warned before they lapse
- One message thread per booking, so nothing lives in a personal inbox
- A dashboard that answers what is coming, who is paid and what needs you today
Visibility
Being in front of people who were not searching for you, because almost nobody searches for a farm by name.
- A dedicated Agritourism category, not a line item buried under “outdoor”
- Keyword pages for what you actually offer — u-pick, blossom, harvest, animals
- Structured data, so search engines show your listing properly
- A drawn share card per listing, so a link posted to a group chat looks like something
- Visitors save you to a bucket list and share it, which is how the next ones arrive
- Seasonal rails on the home page that put you in front of people not looking for you yet
The arrangement
Five steps, and none of them cost you.
We come out, in boots
We walk the ground and take the day as a guest would before we list anything. If it is not something we would send a friend on, we say so and part as friends.
We look at the paperwork with you
Licence, liability cover that actually contemplates visitors on a working farm, food handling if you serve anything, and whatever your county asks of agritourism. This is the part that protects both of us.
We build the listing at our cost
Photography, video, written copy, pricing presentation. You approve every word and every frame before it goes live, and the photographs we take of you doing it are yours to use anywhere.
We market it into your season
The push starts before the fruit is ready, not the week after it has gone. Requests are qualified — group size, ages, mobility, what they think they are coming to do — before they reach you.
You are paid, and we take commission on visits that happened
Agreed in writing before anything goes live. Nothing is owed on a booking you sourced yourself, and nothing is owed on a day that did not run.
Where the money goes
Two ways to be paid. You pick.
Growers ask this first and they are right to. There is no arrangement here where we sit on your money.
Guests check out on Livabit
You connect a payout account once. From then on visitors pay by card on the listing, and the payment is split on the way through — your share goes to your account on your normal schedule, and our commission comes out as each sale settles. There is no invoice to pay, no balance held on your behalf, and nothing to chase us for. It also means a visitor can book at eleven at night without you being awake to confirm it.
Or you collect, the way you always have
Plenty of farms would rather take a deposit over the phone and the balance at the gate, and that is a perfectly good answer. We send you a confirmed guest with the date agreed, you take the money at your price on your terms, and we invoice commission monthly on the visits we introduced that actually ran. Same rate as the other route — the choice changes when the money moves, not how much of it is ours.
On the rate itself
We work on a straightforward share of the visits we bring you. What it comes to depends on the kind of day you run, what it costs you to put on and how much of the marketing spend we are carrying, so we agree it with you in writing before anything goes live — and it never changes without your signature. There is no listing fee, no setup fee, no monthly cost, and no charge of any kind on bookings you find yourself.
The terms, without the sales voice
What stays yours, and what we ask
What stays yours
- Your land, and every decision about what happens on it
- Your prices — you set them, and we never discount without your say
- Your gate: close a field, a date or a whole season without asking us
- Your farm stand, CSA, wholesale and market customers, commission-free
- Your right to list anywhere else you like — there is no exclusivity
- Your right to leave with 30 days’ notice, no exit fee
What we ask of you
Four things, and we hold ourselves to the same standard.
- Current licence and liability insurance, and tell us the day either lapses
- Reply to a confirmed booking request within one business day
- A free reschedule or a full refund whenever you cancel — including for weather
- Tell us early when the season moves, so we are not selling a harvest that already finished
In four numbers
No fees, no lock-in, no exclusivity.
Apply
Tell us what you grow
Five minutes, in five short steps, and it saves as you go so you can finish it between jobs. A real person reads every one and we reply either way — including when the answer is no.
Grower questions
Fair things to ask
I have a few acres, not a business.
Then you are who this page is written for. A market garden, a smallholding, a few rows of fruit and one good story about them is a morning people will pay for — what decides it is whether there is something real to do and somewhere safe to do it, not how many acres are behind it. What a place your size needs to be allowed to have visitors is the next question down, and we answer it with you before anything goes live rather than leaving you to guess.
I run a working farm, not an attraction.
Good — that is the whole appeal, and turning you into an attraction would spend it. The visitors worth having want the farm as it actually runs on a Tuesday. We would rather sell a real morning of work than a petting zoo, and we will never ask you to build one.
Do I need a permit for this, and whose problem is it?
It is yours, and we will not pretend otherwise — zoning and agritourism rules are set county by county and sometimes parcel by parcel. What we do is tell you plainly what we need to see before you go live, and hold the listing until it is in order. We are not your lawyer and not your insurer, and any partner who tells you the paperwork does not matter is telling you something expensive.
What happens if a guest is hurt on my land?
Every visitor signs a participant waiver before they arrive, and the signed record — the version, the text as it read, and who signed it — stays available to you in your dashboard. Be clear-eyed about what that is: it is evidence of what a guest agreed to, not a substitute for your own liability cover, and it does not make an unsafe morning safe. Your judgement on the day always wins. If you send someone home, we back you, and no commission is owed.
My season is six weeks long. Is that worth anyone’s time?
Six intense weeks is the normal shape of this category, and it is easier to sell than a flat year — scarcity is real here rather than manufactured. We market into the window hard, and then look at what you already do outside it: pruning days, lambing, a winter kitchen, the shed nobody has thought to open to visitors. Often there is a second listing sitting in plain sight.
Can I keep the farm stand, the CSA and my own bookings?
Yes, all of them, and we never take a cent of any of it. We only earn on visitors we sent you. If someone finds you through us in April and books you directly every year after that, that is your customer — which is rather the point of the arrangement.
There are animals and machinery here. Children?
You set the rules: minimum age, group size, what is off-limits, what shoes they need, whether the dog stays home. We put every one of them on the listing so they are read at the point of booking instead of argued about at the gate. Families are a large share of the demand for this category, and the operators who do best are the ones who were specific up front.
Do I have to take card payments through you?
No. If you connect a payout account, guests check out on Livabit and the payment is split on the way through — your share to you, our commission out as the sale settles, no invoice to pay. If you would rather keep collecting the way you always have, you do, and we invoice commission monthly on the visits we introduced. Same rate either way.
Run something else? The general partner page covers every kind of class, workshop and experience on the same terms.